More great music [Disclaimer: All these are only links to You Tube.] Mercedes Sosa, Como la cigarra (text María Elena Walsh); Gracias a la vida ; Razón de vivir ; Si se calla el cantor (later two written by Victor Heredia) Violeta Parra, Gracias a la vida (originally her poem) ; Que he sacado con quererte ; Ausencia ; Yo canto a la diferencia ; La carta Isabel Parra, Al centro de la injusticia ; Ni toda la tierra entera ; El cantar tiene sentido ; Ayudame Valentina Isabel Aldunate, Yo te nombro libertad ; El colibrí Iqbal Bano, Dashte Tanhai (a poem of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, title “A thought”) Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit Sandy Denny, Who Knows Where the Time Goes? Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues ; Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out Melanie Safka, Look What They’ve Done to My Song, Ma ; Beautiful People Aretha Franklin, Chain of Fools ; You Make Me Feel ; Respect Sara González, De una vez ; Su nombre es pueblo ; Quando miro tus ojos Janis Joplin, Little Girl Blue ; Summertime ; Ball and Chain; Kozmic Blues ; Me and Bobby McGee Nina Simone, Blues for Mama, Here Comes the Sun [Nina Simone on Janis Joplin] Joan Baez, The Partisan ; Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti ; Here’s to you, Nicola and Bart Stevie Nicks, Rhiannon Soledad Bravo, Santiago de Chile ; Nosotros ; Hasta siempre ; Guerrillera Grace Slick, Pretty as You Feel ; Come Again Toucan ; Somebody to Love ; Sketches of China Joni Mitchell, Hejira ; Coyote ; Chelsea Morning Patti Smith, Dancing Barefoot ; Privilege (Set me Free) ; Frederick ; Wave Shirley Bassey, I who have nothing ; The Living Tree ; This is my Life ; I am what I am Ann Wilson, Crazy on you Cesaria Evora, Sodade ; Partida ; Ingrata ; Mar Azul Joan Armatrading, Down to Zero ; Love and Affection ; Freedom Check out this site: Contemporary Progressive and Crossover Female Vocalists More great music: León Gieco, La memoria ; Sólo le pido a dios (performance with Mercedes Sosa) ; Cancion del silencio ; Quando me muera quiero ; Cinco siglos igual Horacio Guarany, Si se calla el cantor ; Recital a la paz ; Luche, luche Victor Heredía, Razón de vivir ; Sobreviviendo ; Ojos de cielo ; Todavía Cantamos ; Para que nunca se te olvide ; Bailando con tu sombra ; Plumas verdes Víctor Jara, El derecho de vivir en paz ; Canto libre ; Manifesto ; A Pablo Neruda (poem 15 – “Me gustas cuando callas porque estas como ausente”) ; Somos cinco mil (poem written not long before his death, he was killed by the Officials at the National Stadion in Santiago in 1973, see this) Silvio Rodríguez, Ojalá ; Unicornio ; La maza ; El dulce abismo Alí Primera, No basta rezar ; La patria es el hombre ; Vamos gente de mi tierra ; Basta de hipocresia Pablo Milanés, Para vivir ; El amor de mi vida ; Cunáto gané cuánto perdí ; Yolanda (with Silvio Rodríguez); No ha sido fácil Milton Nascimento, Coração de Estudante ; Outro lugar ; Travessia ; Canção da América Caetano Veloso, O Leãozinho ; Você é linda ; Nosso estranho amor Daniel Viglietti, A desalambrar ; Solo digo compañeros (Tupac Amaru) ; Desaparecidos (with Mario Benedetti) ; Canción para mi América (with Isabel and Angel Parra) ; Ronda y Me matan si no trabajo ; Yo vivo en un tiempo de guerra Facundo Cabral, No soy de aqui, ni soy de alla ; Este es un nuevo día ; Pobre mi patrón ; Me gusta la gente simple ; Nada tengo que cuidar/perder ; No estas Deprimido, estas Distraido Joan Manuel Serrat, Mediterráneo ; Aquellas pequeñas cosas ; A mis amigos ; Caminante no hay camino ; La mujer que yo quiero Chico Buarque, O meu amor Georges Brassens, La mauvaise réputation ; Mourir pour des idées ; Les copains d’abord ; Chanson pour l’auvergnat ; J’ai rendez-vous avec vous ; Auprès de mon arbre ; Il n’y a pas d’amour heureux ; Brave Margot ; Quand on est con ; Dieu, s’il existe, il exagère ; Ceux qui ne pensent pas comme nous ; Les Trompettes de la Renomée ; Les amoureux des bancs publics Georges Moustaki, Ma liberté, Le metéque ; Ma solitude ; Il est trop tard ; Mon vieux Joseph ; Le temps de vivre ; En Méditerranée Giorgio Gaber, Io se fossi dio ; Mi fa male il mondo ; Un uomo e una donna ; La libertà ; Io non mi sento Italiano ; Destra-Sinistra ; O Bella Ciao ; Io accuso ; Far finta di essere sani ; E tu mi vieni a dire ; Gli inutili ; La Leggerezza ; Il Corrotto ; La Democrazia; Il conformista ; Mi vien da ridere ; Gli intellettuali ; La cacca dei contadini ; Se io sapessi ; Ho visto un re (with Dario Fo & Enzo Janacci) Nikos Papazoglou, Nihterino; Molis ksypniso to proi ; To oneiro Toti Soler, Sardana Flamenca ; Epigrama ; Vida secreta Here are some of my favorite violinist and piano players: Ginete Neveu, Christoph Willibald Gluck – “Melodie” from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice ; Maurice Ravel – Tzigane ; Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E flat Op. 18 ; Ioan Scarlatescu, Bagatelle ; Manuel de Falla – Dance from the Opera “La Vida Breve” Fritz Kreisler, Liebesleid ; Robert Schumann – Romance in A Major, Op. 94, No. 2 ; Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky – “Andante Cantabile” from String Quartet No.1 ; Bedřich Smetana, Bohemian Fantasie Mischa Elman, Franz Peter Schubert – Serenade ; Robert Schumann – Traumerei ; Josef Bonime – Danse Hebraique ; Johann Sebastian Bach – Air on the G String from Suite No. 3, BWV 1068 (arr. Wilhelmj) ; Peter Tchaikowsky – “Mélodie” – Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42/3 Jascha Heifetz, Christoph Willibald Gluck – “Melodie” from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice ; Pablo de Sarasate – Zapateado ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – “Rondo” from Serenade No. 7 (“Haffner”, K. 250) ; Nicolo Paganini – Caprice 24 ; Camille Saint-Saens – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 28 ; Peter Tchaikovsky – “Mélodie” – Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42/3 Isaac Stern, Camille Saint-Saens – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 28 ; Mendelssohn – Concerto in E Minor ; Yehudi Menuhin, Fritz Kreisler – Liebesleid ; Johannes Brahms – Violin Concerto (3rd mvt.) ; Ivry Gitlis, Fritz Kreisler – Liebesleid ; Peter Tchaikovsky – “Mélodie” – Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42/3 Ida Haendel, Camille Saint-Saens – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 28 ; Johann Sebastian Bach – Andante from Sonata for Violin Alone in A Minor, BMV 1003 ; Documentary about Ida Haendel “I am the violin” (2004) Zino Francescatti, Pablo de Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen ; Claude Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin Nathan Milstein, Ludwig van Beethoven – Kreutzer Sonata, No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ; Paganiniana ; Documentary about Nathan Milstein “Master of Invention”, Part 1, Part 2 David Ojstrakh, Christoph Willibald Gluck – “Melodie” from the Opera Orfeo ed Euridice ; Fritz Kreisler – Liebeslied ; Mendelssohn – Concerto in E Minor ; Camille Saint-Saens – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso 28 Itzhak Perlman, Mendelssohn’s Concerto in E Minor Op. 64 (I. P. 13 years old) ; Nicolo Paganini – Caprice 4 in C minor (Maestoso), 13 (The Devil’s Laughter); Giuseppe Tartini – Devil’s Trill ; Klezmer ; Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne from Partita 02 in D – part 1 & Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne from Partita 02 in D – part 2 ; Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter ; Igor Stravinsky – from Suite Italienne (I. Introduzione: Allegro moderato, II. Serenata: Larghetto, III. Tarantella: Vivace) Vadim Repin, Peter Tchaikovsky – “Mélodie” – Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42/3 ; Sergei Rachmaninov – Trio élégiaque No. 1 (with Lang Lang & Mischa Maisky) ; Hilary Hahn, Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto (Allegro ma non tanto); Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (Romanze Andante) ; Glenn Gould, Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations 1-7 ; Alexander Scriabin – Sonata, No. 5 ; Johann Sebastian Bach – Piano Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV1058 ; (Playlist) ; (Documentary) Artur Rubinstein, Plays Chopin ; Plays Rachmaninoff (Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini) ; Franz Liszt – Liebestraum nº3 ; (Playlist) Vladimir Horowitz, Franz Liszt – Consolation No. 3 in D flat Major ;(Playlist) Martha Argerich, Frederic Chopin – Polonaise brillante Op. 3 for Piano and Cello (with Mstislav Rostropovich) ; Frederic Chopin – Polonaise Op. 53 (Heroic) (Competition 1965); Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3 ; Astor Piazzolla – Libertango (with Eduardo Hubert) ; Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No.6 ; Keith Jarret, Johann Sebastian Bach – Italian Concerto, BWV971 (Allegro) ; Autumn Leaves/Feuilles mortes ; Somewhere Over the Rainbow ; Summertime ; Georgia in My Mind ; Köln Concert Part 1 ; Vermont Solo – Improvisation ;